What is the suitable literary theory that can be used in analysing the story "Games at Twilight"?Relevant theories of literary criticism which the...

Perhaps the most relevant critical theory to examine the
story "Games at Twilight" would be Psychoanalytic. Based upon the fact that the work
itself is deemed psychological, examining the text from a Psychoanalytic perspective
would seem natural.

Psychoanalytical criticism examines a
text from the theologies applied by Freud and others involved in the field of
psychology. This criticism is used to examine the unconscious desires and anxieties of
the author. At the same time, the text is examined in regards to links made between the
characters own mentalities and those of the author. Basically, how do the characters
reflect the author himself/herself.

Another criticism one
could use would be Reader-Response Criticism. This criticism examines the reader's
reaction to the text and determines how the reader's response is critical to
understanding the text itself. In the Reader-Response method, reader's are still
responsible for using a "lens" of another theory by which they read the text through.
This method, in essence, use two criticisms to examine a text.